Resource Economics Project

At the Resource Economics Project we offer policy solutions aimed at meeting the joint challenges of environmental sustainability, jobs and social justice. In a province with so many natural resources, the environment or jobs is a false dichotomy.

A subsidiary of Malaysian state-owned Petronas, the company behind a massive Liquefied Natural Gas plant proposal near Prince Rupert, has built at least 16 large unauthorized dams in northeast BC to...

Our latest forestry research shows that between 2013 and 2016, more raw logs were shipped from BC than during any other four-year period in the province’s history. If these logs had been processed in...

FOI-released documents show that, for years, BC Hydro officials have quietly feared that earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry fracking operations could damage their Peace River dams.
Should...